Grandchildren testimonials to the author: 'To us she is Grandma Snazzy. 'Snazzy' because she was bright, colorful, generous, loving and flamboyant. She was and is a life force." 'Smell the soothing bouquet of her subtly sweet scent layered over peanut butter toast and taste the zippy beef followed by lopsided chocolate cake-just right." 'We will take from her life the gift of knowing we can overcome that which seems impossible, with strength and confidence." 'Time spent with her would seem to fly so fast and you wondered why it was more fun to hang out with your grandmother than with your...

The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party, it is also considered in isolation from the party's origins and evolution. This book presents a study of the Labour Party's thinking on international relations, wh

The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the consequent rise of neo-liberalism, confronted social democrats with difficult new circumstances: tax-resistant electorates, the globalisation of capital and Western deindustrialisation. In response, a new bout of ideological revisionism consumed social democratic parties. But did this revisionism simply amount to a neo-liberalisation of the Left or did it propose a recognisably social democratic agenda? Were these ideological adaptations the only feasible ones or...

Wide-ranging and richly researched, this is the first sourcebook to reconstruct the tumultuous history of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Drawing together over one hundred and fifty documents-including party statements, press releases, published correspondence, reviews, poems, cartoons and articles-it presents a detailed portrait of the party, its abiding concerns and its many contradictions from the 1920s to the 1980s. It samples voices from the full spectrum of the party's diverse personnel, from longstanding party leaders (Harry Pollitt, Rajani Palme Dutt), to prominent...